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Neville Brand’s eye
Frame still from Kansas City Confidential Look at the pinpoint focus in this shot from the 1952 movie Kansas City Confidential. An over ripe crime melodrama, it features some of the most startling closeups I’ve seen. The tough guy actor Neville Brand is staring down his opponent while Lee van Cleef looks on. What’s unique […]
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Tags: actors marks, Cinema faces, George E. Diskant, Kansas City Confidential, Lee van Cleef, movie closeup, Neville Brand, shallow depth-of-field
Allan who?
This is a screenshot from an episode of M.A.S.H. It’s a very familiar show but who’s that guy on the left? If you don’t know this story you’ll be surprised to learn it’s the husband of Diane Arbus. Allan Arbus was a well-born Jewish New Yorker who married Diane in the early 1940s. Her name […]
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Movies and ads
Screenshots from http://www.boxofficemojo.com These are screenshots I’ve taken from Box Office Mojo.com, a Hollywood website that promotes movies and tracks their box office takings. It’s riddled with pop-up ads that create strange juxtapositions with the movie images. .
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Tags: Box Office Mojo, boxofficemojo.com
First prize at the Stockroom
Greg Neville, Goog 2012 Span is the new exhibition at the Stockroom gallery in Kyneton, on the theme of ‘connection, distance and the passage of time.’ The exhibition was judged by Karen Woodbury, and I have won first prize, and a cheque for $3000! Greg Neville, GoooOg, 2012 These are the images that won, from […]
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Tags: gallery in Kyneton, google earth art, Karen Woodbury, Span exhibition, Stockroom gallery Kyneton
CCP Salon win
Installation at the CCP Salon. My picture, bottom left, has won a prize at the CCP Kodak Salon, for ‘Best Use of a Found Photograph’ (gift voucher from CCP Shop, $100). The image is called “1931″ and is from a snapshot of my late mother, a schoolteacher, with her students in rural Victoria in 1931. […]
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Tags: 1931, Best Use of a Found Photograph, CCP Kodak Salon, CCP salon, found photographs CCP Victoria, Greg Neville prize CCP, primary school in rural Victoria
Face/Time at Tacit
Installation shots of my current exhibition, Face/Time, at Tacit Contemporary Art. It runs until December 23. Face/Time is a two-person show with my colleague Kirsten Perry, her image on the left above. The exhibition is a form of self portraiture as our own faces are the source of the imagery, The word time refers, in […]
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Tags: art saccadic eye movements, eye movement art, Face/Time, Kirsten Perry, Tacit Contemporary Art
Casualty
Just as I do a post on the surviving film cameras on the market one of them drops off the twig only hours later. Petapixel reports that Zeiss is getting out of the rangefinder camera market. This is a loss as they are reputedly very good cameras coming from a rich tradition. They are fine […]
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Tags: B&H cameras, Leica body f2 Planar, rangefinder camera market, surviving film cameras, Zeiss rangefinder camera
The silver age
How many film cameras are still on the market? Is the analogue age continuing or has digital killed it dead? What you see above are the main film camera models on the B&H website. These are 35mm and medium format SLRs and rangefinders, panoramics, large format field and studio cameras in 5×4 and 10×8. I’ve […]
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Tags: analogue cameras, B&H film cameras
GoooOg
Greg Neville, GoooOg, 2012 The Stockroom gallery in Kyneton is holding an end of year show called Span, artists exploring connection, distance and the passage of time. This image is one of two I’m putting in the show, from a new series derived from Google Earth satellite views of various cities. The images show highways endlessly […]
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Tags: google art, google earth art, GoooOg, Greg Neville, Stockroom gallery, Stockroom Kyneton
CCP Salon 1931
Greg Neville, 1931. 2011. The CCP Kodak Salon opens on November 22 and runs until December 15, the tribal gathering of photographers in Melbourne. This is my piece, a pigment print based on a photograph of my mother and her students in a country primary school in 1931. It may be at Terip Terip, near […]
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Tags: 5 miles from the sea, CCP Kodak Salon 2012, Terip Terip, Terip Terip near Euroa
Face/Time
. This is the invitation for my new exhibition Face/Time, a two-person show with my colleague Kirsten Perry. My half of the exhibition features my project Shroud, a series of graphic black & white representations of heads, derived from my passport photos going back decades. It’s a sort of self-portrait project but without reference […]
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Tags: abstract face, abstract images of the face and head, face abstracted, Face/Time, Face/Time exhibition, Kirsten Perry, Tacit Contemporary Art, Tacit gallery
First ever digital image
According to an article in Discovery News (reported in Peta Pixel), the first digital camera was made in 1975, but the first digital image goes back almost 20 years earlier to 1957. That’s a long time ago for a technology that feels so fresh and urgent today. It was a normal silver print, but scanned and […]
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Tags: Discovery News Russell Kirsch, early digital photography, first digital image, first digital photo, first scanner, invention of digital photography, Peta Pixel, Russell Kirsch, the first digital image, the first drum scanner
Divided New York
New York Magazine has an impressive image of New York on its latest cover. Taken after Hurricane Sandy, it shows Lower Manhattan in blackout, with the rest of the island lit up, a divided city. Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan took the shot after the storm had passed, with the air clear enough to see […]
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Tags: architectural photographer Iwan Baan, ISO 25000, Kodak T-Max 3200 at night, Lower Manhattan blackout, New York after Hurricane Sandy, New York Magazine, photo of New York from the air, Poynter.org
Koenning’s Lacunae
Katrin Koenning, Lacuna 00 Melbourne’s new photography gallery, Edmund Pearce (Edmund who?) has had a group show that included the work of Katrin Koenning, an emigré German photographer who lives in the city. Her work can be viewed on her excellent website http://www.katrinkoenning.com. The images may remind you of Lorca diCorcia‘s urban photos, I can’t […]
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Tags: Dante's Inferno, Edmund Pearce, Harry Callahan street photographs, Katrin Koenning, Koenning's Lacuna, Lorca diCorcia street photos, Melbourne light, Melbourne street photography, photographs of Melbourne streets, photos of people on the street, woman in red dress
